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Kind of a sad day for me. Yahoo was so instrumental in the early web where I cut my teeth. Seeing it now sold to some telecom giant at around what a handful of
by drzaiusapelord 9y ago
Kind of a sad day for me. Yahoo was so instrumental in the early web where I cut my teeth. Seeing it now sold to some telecom giant at around what a handful of unprofitable mobile apps go for is a bit depressing. For Millenials, imagine if Google was sold to AT&T 5-10 years from now after beaten by hungrier competitors. I guess all these companies fold eventually but Yahoo had quite the terminal illness and it lasted far longer than I assumed and often with bouncebacks that made you think things were getting better.
Perhaps Verizon can do something useful with the brand, but the Yahoo I knew is dead and probably has been since Mayer took over. She was brought in as a hatchet-woman to get an acquisition and got the job done.
- bognition 9y ago>Perhaps Verizon can do something useful with the brand They are abandoning the brand completely. After the merger goes through VZ will combined AOL and Yahoo! into a single new brand Oath. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/technology/verizon-oath-yahoo-aol.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/technology/verizon-oath-y...
- empath75 9y agoThey are 100% not abandoning the brand-either yahoo or aol. Oath is just the umbrella organization.
- _jal 9y agoReminds me of when defiled corpse of Netscape ended up... at AOL.
- TremendousJudge 9y agoIts spirit lives on as Mozilla though
- kilroy123 9y agoIt too makes me sad. I grew up chatting on Yahoo messenger and sitting in chat rooms. Had a Yahoo mail account before gmail, etc. What a fall from grace.